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Show THE INDUSTRIALS. 'Carters Division in ProTO With a Ditched Engine. COMMANDER IN DURANCE Tii Wealer Arrive on a Stolen Train The Local Police -TJ. S. MarhalB From Salt Lake Incident of the Day. About 00 of Carter's men are in Provo today, a hard looking gang in-3etd, in-3etd, but Carter himself is not on tbe grounds, llis self styled lieutenanta1' and otber "officerb" say tbey know nothing of his whereabouts and that he knows nothing about how they got away irom Pleasant Grove where they were camped last niht. IThey arrived in Provo at about 4 o'clock this morning riding on a train consisting of U . P. engine Ho. 1029, the engine mat shc.uld have carried the Eureka mail todaj, in charge of Engineer Engi-neer E. F. blakc and Fireman Thomas Coppin .attached to a U. I. passenger, coacn and two U. i', box cars, the whole running over the R, G. YY. track. The crowd was packed inpide thj cars iike tardines and were also piled ou top, on the sides and on every available r space even to the pilot of the engine and the mutely crew traveling inus presented a unique appearance indeed. On reaching tne Provo j ards a eiy cool or rather a wry rough reception aweited them, .-v hail" mile -ut Iroin the fi i'.h the train ran over some torpedoes tor-pedoes announcing tout danger was ahead. The couiu:ouwealer8 hearine the report of the toroedoes thought the militia waa bring on them lroui ambush am-bush and such a tk rmishmg ai.d jumping jump-ing among a Irigtened crowu w aa never seen before. It is indeed a wonder that gome of the men did not get hurt. Engineer Blake slowed up his ira n ex-pecti'lg ex-pecti'lg to slop at the lepot and lind the deputy marshals on the groun l to whom he would be obliged to give the train, all the U, P. ruhing 8ock now being in the hands of received re-ceived as the property of the goyern cuent. Instead Mr lilake found an open switch to receiye him and the train ran olfcn the ties, As the train was going at the rale of only ten miles an hour no serious accident to rolling stock or men occuted. Finding themselves -unloaded rather unceremoniously the eoimonwealers made a break for a K. G. W. engine, which was standing at the lower end of the vanl. They found this disabled - and returned to U, I. eugine No. 437, but in the mean time Engineers Hanson Han-son and Blake had disabled that engine en-gine hlso, and nothing rt m imed for tbe commouweulers to uo but to put en-pine en-pine N. 1-029 and thecrw they came dwn on, bacic on to the track. At which work a goodly number of the i . men went with a will. A halt in work lor breakfast was made, and this over, the work was again undertaken In the meantime Superintendent Welby had been up in town, aroused Justice Wedgwood, the officers of the city and county, and federal officers and lodged a complaint against the commonwealers under U. S. statutes charging riot, and unlawful assembly. Warrants of arrest were issued and at once the town wa3 skirmished, and a number of men deputized to make the arrests. Dick Aley's ability as a telegraph tele-graph operator was brought into use, and a perfect stream of electric dote and dashes poured from Provo to Salt Lake and from Salt Lake to Provo. The same was going on over the wires of the U. P. All traffiic, paseenger mail and freight, over both roads was stopped, and things as the morning waned a pace began to look serious The U. a. mails were interfered with, ttie men were tampering with U. S. property and were by force detaining men. tbe engineer and firemen di rectly under the jurisdiction of the government, it being their bounden duty to remain in charge of the train, and subject to the government while on the road anywhere according to recent re-cent judicial ruling. Governor West and U. S. marshal's office at Salt Lake were communicated with, and it was decided to bring down troops All was quiet and in a state of waiting wait-ing for several hours. There was nothing going on but the persiftent working of a hundred or so of the energetic en-ergetic wealers in an effort to get the engine back onto the track. The mam body lounged about camp, about a third of them were scattered oyer tbe city. CXCLE BAM STEPS IN. At 12:30 a U. P. train containing fifty armed men sworn in as U. S. marshals armed Jcame in. The men wera uuder Chief Murphy and aids, Marshal Brigham be ing in Washington. The Salt Lake officers marched in line and formed, without resistance of any nature, na-ture, around the engine from which the band of cotnmouwealers who were working ran like frightened sheep. Sheriff Brown mounted the engine and climbing back high on a pile of coal ran to the line of the commonwealers common-wealers and in among them. Very shortly all was quiet. The citizens gathered about and among them the sympathisers with the army were very loud. Mayor Hoi-brook Hoi-brook read THE RIOT ACT and commanded all citizens of Provo to disperse to their homes in peace. The city marshal and policemen at once began quiety but determinedly to enforce this order. Those who re mained on the giounds of course were guilty of riot then selves, and a goodly number did remain. CARTER ARRIVES, At 1:30 there was another and a continuous con-tinuous mighty cheer, the occasion was soon manifest., "General" Carter w.th swollen and sunburnt featurts drersed in bis U. 8. military cottume. Ftalked awkwardly on the ground. "For Christ's s:ike, boys" he wa? about to say something, but Marshal Fowler bad bold of bis arms and the burley "general"' was under arrest. Tuinine turn over to Deputies Wm Stiona and Henry Elliott he was marched unceremoniously to the countv jail. "lutoiandan immediate trial" was his remark to the officer as he stepped into the cell. OTHER ARRESTS were to be made only that conditions at the time were not propitious Inasmuch In-asmuch as Carter was not present when the seizure of the train was made it will be necessary to have others of the armv prisoners when the trial fir 1 grand larceny is had. There will un doubtedly ne f.rrests and trials for riot and route and for unlawful assembly. after dinner. The excitement of the morning having hav-ing worn off. for the space of several hours all about the depots was in a state of waiting and expectancy. The wealers were on their temporary, though stolen, camping grounds with many of them lined up along the track. Their camping ground is the vacant square, the property of the U. P, company, com-pany, just west of the depot and outh of the trac:r. The matn U. P. railroad bed formed the "dead line'1 and the citizens were kept back from that by the officers. The U. S, mr thels with guns in readiness eave the grounds a decided milicary appearance and thing9,though foreboding of harm and trouble and looking most threatening, threaten-ing, were very quiet. GOVERNOR WEST AND STAFF accompanied by the Denhalter rifles and other companies of the Utah ma-litia ma-litia arrived on the scene at 3:30. The gattling guns were placed and the soldiers drawn up in line and tbe commonwealers wilted. They submitted to arrest quietly and as this issue goes to press the county jail and all resources for detaining persons per-sons accused of crime is pressed to its utmost capacity. THE WAR OVER. The men having submitted to arrest until the ranks of their "army" are now very thin they will SCBKLY DISBAND. Those who are under arrest will beyond be-yond a doubt be taken to the peniten tiary and this will be the end for a brief space of time at least, of the Utah industrial in-dustrial army, HOW THE TRAIN WAS CAPTURED. At 9.15 last evening there passed Provo a special train of coal, lieaeti-ing lieaeti-ing Pleasant Groye it was boarded by a gang of forty or fifty commonwealers who rode to Lehi Junction. At that place engines and crews were changed and the coal went on to Salt Lake and the crew who had brought the coal up went to bed. At about 1:30 Messrs. Blake and Coppin were aroused from their slumbers, and firmly but politely asked to come with the committee who waited upon them. The railroad employes em-ployes seeing the number of men making mak-ing the demand and seeing among the reserve force a number of men with clubs and wrenches in their hands and very determined looks upon their faces, although averse to taking a lide in the dark over a road with which they were not familial, decided that it was best tor them to go, especially when they came to consider the lact that it is their bounden duty to stay continuously with and in charge of their engine. Running down to the sugar workB Bwitch tney picked up some empty cars and ran over onto the R. G. W. track, first taking back the mail car they had come down with. Reaching Pleasant Grove the "army" boarded the train and and came to Provo without incident. inci-dent. NOTES. The greatest number of the common wealers lounged about camp all morn ing, but pome went up in town and managed to get what whisky they wanted. Among those who worked at getting the train back on the tracks are many very competent and intelligent railroad rail-road men. The mechanics and traveling men could be easily designated from the bums and hobos. The latter either lounged about camp or prowled around the street begging. The meals the commonwealers begged from citizens today were far more palatable that these dispensed at commissary. There is much complaining in the "army" because the wagons loaded with food and provisions are not roll-into roll-into camp. There is considerable bunting displayed dis-played on the camp ground, the American Ameri-can flag, flags of peace, many mottoes and one live eagle. The cooks boldly entered a U. P. car loaded with potatoes belonging to Decker & McCauslin and appropriated to their own use without leave five sacks of the tubeis, When the U.S. marshals arrived from Salt Lake the commonwealers booted lustily many of them crying "Bah. we know 'em." Dey were wid us in de aoup house." "General" Carter, in a brief interview inter-view had only to say? "Well, hell's a poppin', now. Let 'er pop. I've Known all along that it was coming, and always hoped it would come soon. I'm under arrest now, and am not responsible re-sponsible for what takes place here alter, as lonf, as I am deprive! of my liberty." He was arrested for wrongfully, wrong-fully, unlawfully and feloniously, and with force of arms and with violence seizing and taking a locamotive engine and certain cars and rolling stock be longing to the U. P. Ry. t tnpany. Mayor Holbrouk sent d(, n a quarter of beef for the "armyV dinner. They helped themselves to potatoes and had bread and coffee with them. Sheriff Brown had an order from Jndge Smith's court to take a sufficient number of men and by such force as may be necessary recover from "Jotn Doe Carter, Richard Roe and others" property of the U. P. Ry. company and wrongfully in posseesion of these men. Carter declares that he was asleep in the Miller boarding house at American Fork when the traia was stolen. He came to Provo overland in a bugey, |